modstart

Organize shortcuts in groups. Your personal new tab with themes, clock, weather and optional Chrome sync.

A new tab that feels like yours. modstart brings your favorite websites together in folder-like groups on a customizable new-tab page. It replaces Chrome's new-tab page with your shortcuts, a clock and optional weather. ORGANIZE YOUR SHORTCUTS • Add your own category groups and website shortcuts. • Keep each group compact: extra shortcuts appear on separate pages inside the card. • Hold and drag to reorder groups and shortcuts. • Navigate with arrows, page dots, the mouse wheel and swipe gestures. • Search your saved shortcuts. Web searches respect the default search provider selected in Chrome. MAKE YOUR ICONS YOUR OWN • Bundled icons for common websites, with automatic icon discovery for other sites. • Edit shortcut names and icons, or upload a custom icon. • Choose from 36 outline icons for your groups. • Use rounded-square, circle, square or hexagon shortcut shapes and adjust corner rounding. COLORS, THEMES AND GLASS • Pick a built-in wallpaper or upload your own photo. • Follow your system theme or choose light or dark mode. • Give each group a preset color or choose your own from the color picker. • Adjust group transparency, blur and shadow separately. • Customize the clock, date, density and icon size. KEEP CONTROL OF YOUR LAYOUT • Your categories and shortcuts are stored on this device by default. • Download and restore a full backup, including your uploaded images. • Start with a blank layout by clearing all categories and shortcuts, or restore the initial sample layout and default settings. Both actions ask for confirmation and offer a backup first. • Optionally sync your text-based layout between Chrome devices using the same Google account. Chrome extension sync must also be enabled. • Sync covers category and shortcut names, URLs, order and text-based settings. Uploaded wallpapers and custom icons stay on their own device. • Settings show the last successful sync time and the result of manual sync attempts. 8 LANGUAGES English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. Common category names such as shopping, health, banking and politics are recognized across languages; personal names stay unchanged. WEATHER AND OFFLINE USE Select a city to show weather, or leave it off. Your saved layout, themes and backup tools work offline. Opening websites, fetching fresh weather and transferring Chrome sync data between devices require an internet connection. A fallback is shown when a remote site icon cannot be found. PRIVACY modstart does not read your email, passwords, open-tab list or browsing history. It contains no advertising or analytics trackers. Weather requests send your selected city information to Open-Meteo; icon discovery may request an icon directly from the destination site. Optional Chrome sync uses Google's infrastructure. See the privacy policy in the extension and store listing for details. modstart is free. Optional coffee support is never required to unlock a feature. Meftun Kadam https://meftunkadam.com/